Sexualities and popular culture / Carl B. Holmberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmberg, Carl Bryan.

Series:

Foundations of popular culture ; vol. 6.

Foundations of popular culture ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex in popular culture.

Physical Description:

xvii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1998]

Summary:

The author presents a short history of popular culture with definitions and examples that illustrate the evolving portrayal of human sexuality. Examples are taken from sources such as books, film, magazines and television, historic texts, sport and everyday popular practices to explain how pervasively popular culture communicates sexuality to us and through us.

Contents:

Popular culture

Communication and media

Popular culture studies

Sex, gender, and sexual orientation

Over the edge : taboos and sexualized, transgressive interpretive communities

Prehistoric and historic texts from around the world

Historic texts of beauty : the problematics of art, erotica, and pornography

The horror of sex

Sexual humors and the flirtatious alchemy of gaiety and gravity

After the beat : popular music

Gesture, body image, and the fashion of sex toys.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.

ISBN:

076190350X

0761903518

OCLC:

37980667